
In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.
– Eileen Favorite
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- For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one. – Eileen Favorite
- I’d run. But maybe you can’t run. Think of that, too.’ His yellow eyes seemed to look inward, and he sounded tired. ‘Sometimes you can’t run. – Robert Jordan
- This is not about going back. This is about life being ahead of you and you run at it! Because you never know how far you can run unless you run. – Penny Chenery Secretariat
- No…No…We don’t walk away but when we’re holding on to something precious we run. We run away. We run as fast as we can. – The Doctor
- To manifest the beauty of life, think beauty, dream beauty, and see the beauty in the simple things all around you. – Debasish Mridha
- Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience. – Joyce Rachelle
- To spin the tale with great flourish but never live the tale is the power of vision strangled to fiction by the fiction of fear. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history – Iain Banks
- History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction. – AE Samaan
- Fiction is only fiction because it is yet to be proven. – Robert M Roberts
- Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place. – Justin Alcala
- Fiction described reality better than non-fiction. – Tommy Wallach
- General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else. – Marvin Minsky
- I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows. – EM Forster
- It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. – Mark Twain
- Memory is like fiction: or else it’s fiction that’s like memory. – Haruki Murakami
- Memory is like fiction: or else it’ fiction that’s like memory. – Haruki Murakami
- All story fiction is both truth that happens and never happens. Fiction is always about humanity, even if no subject is humanitarian or even human. – Richard Bunning
- Writing fiction is fun. Writing non-fiction is life-changing. – AD Posey
- We make fiction because we are fiction … It lived us into being and it lives us still. – Russell Hoban
- Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction. – John Cheever
- Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn’t. – Neil Gaiman
- I’d always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice. – Robin McKinley
- The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable. – Mark Twain
- Since truth is often stranger than fiction, fiction needs to be pretty weird. – Erik Meyer
- To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention. – Ursula K Le Guin
- I don’t want to write soft, easy fiction; I want to write fiction that challenges. – Brian A McBride
- If contemporary literary fiction doesn’t read a bit like science fiction then it’s probably not all that contemporary, is it – Warren Ellis
- I love science fiction, always have, always will. But it’s the kind of science fiction that I love which I think is an important distinction. – Matthew S Williams
- Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate. – Alan Moore
- To wipe out abuse is not enough; you have to change people’s whole outlook. The mill is no longer standing, but the wind’s still there, blowing away. – Victor Hugo
- Command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its normal state. – John Stuart Mill
- One person with a belief is worth 99 people who have only interests. – John Stuart Mill
- If you could blow the brain up to the size of a mill and walk about inside, you would not find consciousness. – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice. – John Stuart Mill
- Have intercourse with females, acquire wealth. – John Stuart Mill
- Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement. – John Stuart Mill
- The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded. – John Stuart Mill
- The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited, he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. – John Stuart Mill
- We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. – John Stuart Mill